“Someday”

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Via Pitchfork

Before Stephin Merritt decided orchestral folk-pop songs for Eric Cartman's next tea party constituted Realism, he cranked up his copy of Darklandsand titled the Magnetic Fields' 2008 album Distortion. For these former members of Virginia-based Skywave, a band that also spawned A Place to Bury Strangers, that album title could've summed up an entire career. Instead, Paul Baker and John Fedowitz chose to call their post-Skywave duo Ceremony, a moniker that hearkens back to a certain New Order song title (also, probably less relevantly, a short-lived band fronted by Chastity Bono). Aside from vocals recalling Merritt's tired montone, "Someday" doesn't sound like anything you might not be able to imagine from those reference points-- thunderously romantic Factory Records guitar/bass interplay, lo-fi drum machines-- but as far as what it sets out to do, it succeeds. And did I mention that it's really fucking loud?